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JACKSON 0.. BELKNAI, OF MOBILE, ALABAMA.

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ESPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,230, dated July22, 1884.

Application filed May 10, 1894, (N model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACKSON OGDEN BEL- KNAP, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Mobile, in the county of Mobile and State ofAlabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being had therein tothe accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in toys;and it has for its objects, first, to provide a toy with means wherebytwo figures may be made to advance toward and retire from each other;"second, to provide means whereby two figures may be made to advancetoward and retire from each other, and a third figure made to appear anddisappear during the movements of the other figures; third, to providemeans whereby two figures may be made to advance toward and retire fromeach other, and to exercise a movement similar to that of the butting ofa goat;

and, fourth, to provide means whereby two figures are made toadvancetoward and retire from each other, and to exercise a movement similar tothat of the butting of a goat, and a third figure adapted to appear anddisap pear during the recoil butting of the other figures.

With these ends in view my invention consists, essentially, of asuitable frame having a hand-piece, and provided with standards adaptedto reciprocate to and fro on the frame, and provided with toy animal orhuman figures or other objects, and with a third figure, which may bemade to appear and disappear with the advancement or retirement of theother figures.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, andon which like letters of reference indicate similar or correspondingfeatures, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of my improved toy; Fig.2, an end elevation thereof; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section through aportion of the frame, showing a modified means of connecting thefigurestandards therewith; Fig. 4:, a longitudinal sectional view takenthrough the frame and the handle, showing the relative arrangement ofthe several parts; Fig. 5, a detached side elevation of thefigure-standard, showing the same in a modified form 5 Fig. 6, a planview thereof; Figs. 7 and 8, detail views of the operating-rods; andFig. 9, a section through a portion of the frame, showing anothermodified means of mounting the figure therein.

The letter A designates a strip of metal or wood, the same beingprovided with atubular handle, B. The upper edge of the said strip ispreferably provided with a groove constructed either by cutting away thematerial or by bending the side pieces constituting the same toward eachother, as shown in Fig. 2.

At either end of the said strip I attach suitablesprings, C, (in thepresent instance of india-rubber,) to the inner ends of' which areattached, respectively, the figure-standards D.

These standards consist, preferably, of a piece of wire having an eye,E, formed therein near its base, to which an actuating-string (to beloops or rings for the reception of the fingers.

On the standards D are mounted in the present instance figuresrepresenting goats, though I do not confine myself to any particularanimal, as Icontemplate mounting thereon such figures as my fancy maydictate. On the operating-rod I, I mount afigure, in (the presentinstance representing the head of a man.) around and beneath which, andalso mounted on the beam A, I place a hollow structure representing aportion of a barrel. "When the operating-rod J is given a slightdownward movement, the figures mounted on the standards D, through themedium of the connecting-cords II, are made to advance toward eachother, at the same time stretching or distending the springs (J, thebases of the standards sliding within the groove in the strip A. IVhenthese figures have sufficiently neared the center figure, it is thedesign of the These cords pass, respectively,

invention that the operating-rod J shall be ICD goats will be made tobutt at the head of the man, which at the same time will descend,through the medium of the operating-rod I, down Within the portion ofthe barrel above alluded to. The effect of this operation is to causethe head to avoid the blows of the goatheads,and at the same time thenatural move ments of the minature figures present an amusing andpleasing appearance.

The design of the toy as represented in the present instance is acaricature or humorous take-off of a popular subject, though Icontemplate Varying the animals and figures at pleasure.

As represented in Fig. 3, the figure-standard is constructed tooscillate to and fro, so as to give the required movement to the figure,though not to move back and forth, the lower end of said standard beingpivotally connected with the strip K, rigidly mounted upon the strip A.The spring 0 is connected with the strip A and with the loop in thewire, so as to make it stand normally in the position shown, and tocause it to return to that position when thrown therefrom by the actionof the cord G, which in this instance passes through an aperture in thestrip, and is provided with a ring at its free end, the operat ing-rod Jbeing dispensed with. This arrangement of the string may also be appliedto the devices, as shown in Fig. at, by dispensing entirely with therods I and J and allowing the cords G and H to pass down through theaperture in the strip and through the handle.

In Fig. 5 the figure-standard is constructed as represented in Fig. 4:,save that a roller, L, is applied to the lower end thereof, whereby thesame can be made to roll easily over a plane surface, it beingcontemplated to use this device on a large scale in a theater or museum.A further modification of the figure-standard is shown in Fig. 9, inwhich the same ismounted on a rocker-shaped base, the spring 0 beingattached to one end thereof and the actuating-cord to the other, wherebywhen the latter is pulled the figure is made to rock.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a toy, the combination, with a plurality, of figures, of anotheror intermediate figure, the former constructed to be advanced toward thelatter, and the latter constructed to be actuated simultaneously withsuch advancing movement of the former.

2. In a toy, thecombination, with the frame and the figure standardshaving figures mounted thereon, of the intermediate figurestandardhaving a figure mounted thereon, the former constructed to advancetoward each other and to be given an oscillating movement, and thelatter constructed to be simultaneously withdrawn.

3. In a toy, the combination, with the strip and the slidingfigure-standards, of the vertical figure-standards, said standards beingconnected together, and the former constructed to slide toward eachother and to be given an oscillating movement, and the latter to besimultaneously and vertically actuated.

. 4. In atoy,the combination, with the grooved strip, the slidingfigure-standards, and the springs connecting them with the strip, of theintermediate verticallyoperating figure-standard and theconnecting-cords and actuatingrods, one set of which is adapted toadvance the sliding standards, and the other set of which is adapted tosimultaneously oscillate the sliding standards'and actuate the verticalstandard, so as to withdraw the center figure.

5. In a toy,the combination,with the grooved strip having a handle, thesliding figure-standards, the springs, and the actuating cord and rod,'of the intermediate figurestandard and rod,and the cord connecting thesame with the sliding standards, whereby the sliding standards are madeto advance and retire to and from each other, and are given anoscillating movement si multaneouslywith the withdrawal of the centerfigure.

6. In a toy, the combination, with a sliding figure-standard having ananti-friction roller journaled thereto, of the spring and theoperating-cords attach ed thereto, whereby a sliding and oscillatingmovement may be imparted to the figure.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J AOKSON O. BELKNAP.

" IVitnesses:

MoR'roN TOULMIN, EDWIN L. BRADFORD.

